WINTERSTONE PICTURES is an award winning boutique feature film and commercial production company based in Los Angeles, CA with projects and clients worldwide. The company was founded by Ashley Avis and Edward Winters, and focuses on projects with a through line of elegance and cinematic artistry.

On the film side, WINTERSTONE recently completed a five year long documentary endeavor, Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West, exploring the plight of wild horses in the American West. Directed by Ashley Avis, the film comes on the heels of Disney's Black Beauty, which Avis also wrote, directed, and edited.

Winterstone has produced numerous other feature film and television projects, including Deserted (2016) and Adolescence (2018) , as well as The Picture (TV) for Winkler Films (Rocky franchise, Creed franchise).

Commercially WINTERSTONE works with clients all over the world, from start-ups to major companies such as Coca Cola, Red Bull, Footlocker, Pfizer, Galderma, Mercedes-Benz, Chevrolet, and more. We are the proud recipient of the 2016 Mercedes-Benz award for our auto-fashion fusion spot "BESPOKE"; and in 2019 produced the 14-part "Goalkeepers" campaign featuring noted Olympians Mia Hamm, Laurie Hernandez, and Hilary Knight encouraging girls to stay in sports.

In May 2023, founders Ashley Avis & Edward Winters were honored with a special Congressional Commendation from Dina Titus (NV) for their work on behalf of wild horses, through the documentary WILD BEAUTY: Mustang Spirit of the West.

Ashley Avis is an American filmmaker and screenwriter. She founded her production company Alchemy Pictures in 2010, which would eventually become Winterstone. She recently wrote, directed, as well as editing BLACK BEAUTY (2020) for Disney+, starring Oscar winner Kate Winslet, Mackenzie Foy, and Iain Glen.

Beginning her career as a journalist at Nielsen Media in New York, she relocated to Los Angeles in 2009 to transition to entertainment. Ashley has directed and produced projects for commercial clients internationally, from Coca Cola, Red Bull, Mercedes-Benz, Footlocker, Pfizer, and more. She is also an editor, cutting the vast majority of her commercial work.

Her work has been called "timelessly romantic" (White Lies Magazine), “elegantly sensual” (Elite Daily), and "groundbreaking" (OffTheStrip).

In 2015, Ashley wrote and directed the feature film Deserted, a survival story set in Death Valley. Her second feature film, a coming of age story called Adolescence (starring India Eisley, Tommy Flanagan, Elisabeth Rohm, and Jere Burns) was released in 2018.

For five years, she and Edward Winters worked on the award winning feature length documentary WILD BEAUTY: MUSTANG SPIRIT OF THE WEST (2023) which has garnered support from top environmental groups such as The Sierra Club, Western Watersheds Project, along with Members of Congress including Steve Cohen (TN) and Dina Titus NV). In 2023 she and Edward were honored with a Congressional Commendation for their work.

Upcoming projects include directing THE LAMB for MBC (2023), THE SUMMER OF IMPOSSILBLE THINGS by Rowan Coleman, and TRANCAS by Lem Dobbs.

Ashley is the co-founder of Winterstone Pictures along with her husband and producing partner Edward Winters. A philanthropist and passionate longtime equestrian, she is the Founder & President of The Wild Beauty Foundation, as well as on the board of longtime 501(c)(3) nonprofit Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue.

Edward Winters is a producer and president of Winterstone Pictures. He attended Wingate University and was a competitive, collegiate golfer.

Beginning his career in the finance world of New York, Edward worked for Merrill Lynch and wealth management platform Folio Dynamix before making the transition to entertainment.

Moving to Los Angeles in 2013, he partnered with Ashley Avis at Alchemy Pictures, which would re-launch as Winterstone Pictures in January of 2016.

Edward is the executive producer of projects for commercial clients internationally, and producer of a number of feature films including the award winning WILD BEAUTY: MUSTANG SPIRIT OF THE WEST (2023), BLACK BEAUTY for Disney+ (2020), ADOLESCENCE (2017), DESERTED (2016), as well as several upcoming projects in development.

Edward will next produce the the sci fi thriller SLEEPLESS based on the novel by Charlie Huston, for David Winkler / Winkler Films (Rocky franchise, Creed franchise, Goodfellas, The Wolf of Wall Street).